These Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies will have you reaching for more than one!
Whether you call them yin-yang cookies, marble cookies, or chocolate swirl cookies, this is the best chocolate peanut butter cookie recipe ever. The ultimate flavour combination is so good, you will want to give these chocolate peanut bites a try too.
Irresistible, soft, unique peanut butter chocolate fusion cookies. Great for holidays or any day. The perfect blend of cocoa, peanut butter and two kinds of chips combine to create a decadent cookie that is sure to be a hit.
Are you a cookie lover? Do you like them crisp? How about chewy? Flat or a nice big fat dome? So many choices. So many flavours. Cookies can be complicated if you know what I mean.
Nothing beats a fresh, home-baked cookie. For me, the chewy cookies always topped the list. Combining ingredients like sea salt, caramel and espresso into cookies is so good. Give these chewy oatmeal cookies a try.
Ingredients For Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
If the combination of chocolate and peanut butter is up your alley, you really need to give these cookies a try. This tasty combination can be used in many recipes from breakfast to dessert, and snacks in between. Peanut butter and chocolate will get your taste buds watering. Have you tried my cupcakes? This flavour combination is so good on a toasted bagel.
- butter
- sugar (brown and granulated)
- eggs
- all-purpose flour
- baking soda
- milk
- salt
- peanut butter
- cocoa powder
- peanut butter extract (affiliate link in recipe card)
- chocolate extract (affiliate link in recipe card)
- peanut butter chips
- chocolate chips
Making Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies
Now, when it comes to cookies, these are in a league all their own. A little labour-intensive, but so worth the effort. A cross between cookies and brownies. Thick, rich, chewy and oh-so addictive.
Full instructions are in the recipe card below, but here is a quick walk-through.
- Prepare the chocolate cookie dough.
- Prepare the peanut butter dough.
- Chill both kinds of dough for 2 hours (this is so important).
- Preheat the oven and prepare your baking trays.
- Remove the dough from the fridge.
- Roll 1 tablespoon of each kind of dough into a ball.
- Place the 2 balls together to form 1 large cookie ball.
- Place on a baking sheet, and continue until the tray is full.
- Bake according to recipe directions.
Suggestions/Recipe Tips
Okay, let’s talk about the labour-intensive part. I don’t want to scare you from making these addictive treats. Seriously these are so much easier than baking and frosting a cake.
When the batter is ready, roll each flavour into balls (like 36 of each kind). I find this is the fastest and easiest way to make these cookies. Then you take 1 ball of each flavour and create a larger (2 flavoured) ball. Look at the photos, you will see what I mean. Using a cookie scoop will help.
- Room temperature and butter and eggs are needed to make the perfect cookie dough.
- Smooth peanut butter can be replaced with crunchy if you like.
- Diary or non-dairy milk can be used.
- Do not forget to chill the dough, this is such an important step.
- Do not overbake the cookies. They will firm up as they cool.
If you want to impress your family and friends, I guarantee hands down these peanut butter and chocolate cookies will do it!
Looking for a healthy version of the wonderful chocolate and peanut butter combination? Give this chocolate pudding a try.
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Ultimate Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
Chocolate Cookie Dough:
- ½ cup unsalted butter (room temperature)
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg (room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon (affiliate) peanut butter extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoons salt
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 cup peanut butter chips
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough:
- ½ cup unsalted butter (room temperature butter)
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg (room temperature)
- ¾ cup smooth peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon (affiliate) chocolate extract
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoons salt
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
For the Chocolate Dough:
- Cream butter and sugars using a hand mixer.
- Beat in egg and peanut butter extract. Be sure to scrape down sides of the bowl when needed.
- In a bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
- Slowly combine wet and dry ingredients. Dough will be thick.
- Using a spoon or spatula, mx in milk.
- Fold in peanut butter chips. Set dough aside.
For the Peanut Butter Dough:
- Cream butter and sugars using a hand or stand mixer.
- Add peanut butter, egg and chocolate extract. Be sure to scrap down the sides of the bowl when needed.
- In a bowl combine, flour, baking soda and salt.
- Slowly combine wet and dry ingredients.
- Fold in chocolate chips. Set dough aside.
- CHILL both doughs for 2 HOURS ***This is an important step***
- Preheat oven to 350º F. Spray or line cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone mats.
- Remove doughs from fridge.
- Take approx. tablespoon of each dough (one at a time) and roll into a ball.
- Put the two balls together and make 1 large ball.
- Place on prepared cookie sheet, and bake for approx. 15 minutes. Let cool slightly, and transfer to cooling rack***Cookies will look under baked*** They will finish baking and firm up while cooling.
Noel Lizotte
I love this new combination of my favorite flavors! Who doesn’t love cookies?!
My mom used to bake cookies often … I don’t make them so much. You’re right about things being better when we moved a bit slower.
Homemade & Yummy
Yes, but funny enough when I was a kid….it didn’t seem good enough. Hindsight often surprises us!!
Jodi @ Create Kids Club
We love making homemade cookies at my house. My mom did when I was growing up, and I love continuing this with my kids. They would love to make these cookies and I would too – they look fantastic!
Homemade & Yummy
I think kids would have fun making these too. I know everyone would LOVE eating them.
Marlynn | UrbanBlissLife
These look great. I love chocolate and peanut butter combos. I will definitely have to make some!
Homemade & Yummy
Hope you give them a try…the are so delicious.
shobee
They look great and the combination is just my kind of cookie.
Homemade & Yummy
Totally addictive…and utterly delicious.
Dahn
this is the perfect combination of flavors, I love chocolate and peanut butter. I agree, it seems like home baking is a lost art these days… so sad.
Homemade & Yummy
These are a little labour intensive…but SOOOO worth it.
Joanna @ Everyday Made Fresh
Peanut butter and chocolate are a perfect combo, and cookies are one of my favorite sweet snacks to make. These look great.
Homemade & Yummy
These are truly addictive….hope you give them a try.
Karyn Ryan
I was one of the lucky ones too having a mum who baked..we always had something tasty after school. Who can resist a cookie at anytime but these look extra specisland. Delicious combo, my kids would love these and there early to bake too
Homemade & Yummy
These are so addictive, so delicious…and perfect for anything from snacking to a special occasion celebration.
Kavey Favelle
Oh yes, love these flavours and the way you have crossed the two sides is so cool, it reminds me of yin yang! Really delicous.
Homemade & Yummy
Yes I will agree…these are REALLY delicious for sure.
Marisa Franca @ All Our Way
I bet the grandkids are nuts about these cookies. I love the way they look — could be kind of halloweeney (is that a word?) with the flavors of chocolate and peanut butter. And I do like cookies! Actually better than cakes or pies. It’s so nice to be able to grab one or two and munch away. Have a great day!
Homemade & Yummy
These do not last long here that’s for sure.
peter @Feed Your Soul Too
These look like so much fun. My family would go crazy for these.
Homemade & Yummy
They are always a hit in our house.
prasanna hede
I am a Peanut Butter fan..I lick the whole jar just like that! These would be so yummy for sure.
Homemade & Yummy
These are SOOOOOO addictive…and DELICIOUS!
Lisa | Garlic & Zest
Just what the doctor ordered! These look so yummy – and my husband has a thing for chocolate and chocolate chips — this could be dangerous!
Homemade & Yummy
Yes these are totally addictive for sure.
Catherine Brown
Oh, WOW! I love the way these look when they’re baked! Do you know if the peanut butter extract is derrived from peanuts? Wondering if this would work for someone with peanut allergies.
Homemade & Yummy
I do not know about the extract….you would have to check the website and find out.
Jagruti
Lovely and mouthwatering, two of my fav ingredients peanut butter and chocolate. Thanks
Homemade & Yummy
Yes these are so good….totally addictive. You will want to eat more than one.
Jeni @ Biscuits & Booze
My husband is a peanut butter and chocolate FANATIC. I’d have to hide half the batch if I made these or he’d eat every single one!
Homemade & Yummy
Yes these disappear QUIKLY…so if you want some, you will have to hide them.